At first, these lyric seem pretty cryptic, but I think it's pretty clearly a story about some passionate fling. The "Let let let let let let go" lyrics take on a double meaning. In the early verses, they represent sensual release, which fits in with the "erotic see saw." But in the middle of the song he hints that things are falling apart, with the lines:
"The shifting easel
It’s dripping now its stained in the reds and the paints
And now it don’t look the same"
And also of course... "Feels like the sun's going down" and "Have you seen those clouds."
I think the insinuation is that this affair fell apart, and now the "Let let let let let let go" takes on a literal meaning, as the singer is trying to let go. The "Out of the question for the dead" line is kind of a morbid twist; is he saying he would rather die than let this go?
Either way, this defeat is summed up in the recurring final lines:
I made a shadow with my hand
I made it like your heart
But they will never be the same
In other words, though the singer may have wanted this relationship to be more than a fleeting shadow, he could not win her heart.
Also, I hear a slight variation: In the beginning of the song I hear "This exploding young brain is going to pull me out again." And in the second-to-last verse I hear "This exploding young brain is going to throw me out again." It's too hard to tell if I'm right about that since these lyrics are hard to hear, but if it's true that there is a shift there, it would fit perfectly into the story I'm hearing of a brief affair that couldn't last.
At first, these lyric seem pretty cryptic, but I think it's pretty clearly a story about some passionate fling. The "Let let let let let let go" lyrics take on a double meaning. In the early verses, they represent sensual release, which fits in with the "erotic see saw." But in the middle of the song he hints that things are falling apart, with the lines:
"The shifting easel It’s dripping now its stained in the reds and the paints And now it don’t look the same"
And also of course... "Feels like the sun's going down" and "Have you seen those clouds."
I think the insinuation is that this affair fell apart, and now the "Let let let let let let go" takes on a literal meaning, as the singer is trying to let go. The "Out of the question for the dead" line is kind of a morbid twist; is he saying he would rather die than let this go?
Either way, this defeat is summed up in the recurring final lines:
I made a shadow with my hand I made it like your heart But they will never be the same
In other words, though the singer may have wanted this relationship to be more than a fleeting shadow, he could not win her heart.
Also, I hear a slight variation: In the beginning of the song I hear "This exploding young brain is going to pull me out again." And in the second-to-last verse I hear "This exploding young brain is going to throw me out again." It's too hard to tell if I'm right about that since these lyrics are hard to hear, but if it's true that there is a shift there, it would fit perfectly into the story I'm hearing of a brief affair that couldn't last.